Word: rican
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since that childhood triumph, he has climbed to more impressive heights. Last year in Montreal, he swam for the Puerto Rican Olympic team, and although he failed to qualify for the finals, he set Puerto Rican national records in both the 200-and 400-meter freestyle swims. He has also joined the Puerto Rican team three more times for competition in the Central American Games...
However, Fayer added that her quick success was largely a bad reflection on the Puerto Rican women's swimming program. She said, "Puerto Rico's program for women was quite poor, and as a result, many of the swimmers quit by the time they were 16. I came in at a time when many of the women were quitting...
...Broadway. "I don't want to take the easy way out. I want to be independent and make my statement alone," she explains. Her statement turns out to be that of a "sensitive girl who falls into hooking" in Jockeys, a new play about a Puerto Rican jockey on the way up. To research the part, Pam grilled a prostitute acquaintance for details of the life. She even slipped out between rehearsals to Manhattan's raunchy Times Square to gain insight into the local working girls at their trade-and to have her picture taken...
...intention of discontinuing their particular form of chauvinist propaganda unless the Harvard community takes a strong stand against categorizing this trash as "humor." If the Lampoon does not have the integrity to recognize what they are doing for what it is, then we must. Afro-American, Puerto Rican, Asian-American, white, men and women, all of us must take a stand: the Lampoon is not funny--it is offensive and bigoted...
...grand jury is investigating the F.A.L.N., a radical Puerto Rican independence group that claims responsibility for 49 U.S. bombings. At the Chicago apartment of the only known F.A.L.N. member, Carlos Alberto Torres, 24, FBI agents last November found 211 sticks of dynamite and 100 lbs. of explosive chemicals. They also discovered correspondence showing that Torres was a member of the Episcopal Church's Commission on Hispanic Affairs...